mankind, be vigilant

[uglyfruit]

[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]

[dk-thrive]

"Grace to live at all—none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it."

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

[bearhugs-2021]

Serge Wolf was ready with his camera when he spotted a northern harrier bird of prey getting up close and personal with a black bear sleeping on a hay bale in a field near Salmon Valley. 

[dolm]

Portugal. Porto. A barco rabelo carries Porto wine down the Douro river. 1985. Bruno Barbey.  

[safije]

Kamchatka, Russia

©Игорь Шпиленок

[zegalba]

birds flying over the jurassic canyon of Iceland

[biladal-sham]

Afghan girls attend astronomy classes at a school in Herat. A team of female students in Herat has won the World Astronomical Union Award, the girls’ team is ranked first among 255 teams from 52 countries.

Photograph: Jalil Rezayee

[coolart403]

[aridante]

Andrés Cerpa, The Vault

[aeontriad]

Circuit Board Sculptures by Peter McFarlane

[Edit: this post is 10 years old and just recently gained a lot of attention. I had no idea the links were broken. You can find an article about the artist here.]

[firstfullmoon]

Marie Howe, in an interview with BOMB Magazine

[bocekcicek]

Julie Cockburn

[slobodyanuk]

Coptic textile, 6th - 10th century.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

When straight society invented the sissy, the faggot, the equivalent in almost every language, to intimidate men and trans women into compliance, they unwittingly created a new gender. It's a lesser, or at least separate class of man, or in many cases not a man at all. Created as an nebulous threat, the possibilities of what it means to be one became endless. Either weak or brutishly strong to the point of unfair advantage, neutered or hypersexual, ignorant bimbo or cosmopolitan intellectual, starving underclass or ostentatious elite, victim or villain, powerless but powerful enough to be a threat to society just by existing. People who would never admit to seeing gender on nonbinary terms still intuitively recognize and treat this class as a distinct, socially recognized gender with its own signifiers. Despite the cruelty behind this category, its defiance of convention makes it alluring even to people who hate it. Those who embrace their faggotry are not putting themselves into a box but tapping into their limitless potential.

[may-k-world]

今年も道すがら赤い彼岸花はお目にかかりましたが、あまり見たことのなかった白花にも数回遭遇しました。しかしまさか10月に入ってから見ることができるとは！

[museum-of-artifacts]

Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III; 14th century BC

[weltenwellen]

Sean Thomas Dougherty, from “The Men and the Quiet”